Prescribed burning is used to reduce fuels, manage vegetation and restore or maintain historic scenes such as battlefields.
Female firefighter igniting grass with driptorch
U.S. National Park Service
Park: Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park
Photographer: C. Daniel Soper
Taken: Feb 2004
RX burn: Spotsylvania Courthouse RX Burn
Field is a warm season native grass (switchgrass) field, first ever RX burn at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania.
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Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, Code: FRSP
Fire and Aviation Management Program, Code: FIRE
Fredricksburg & Spotsylvania NMP, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, Spotsylvania County, Virginia Latitude: 38.298900604248, Longitude: -77.7401962280273